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The Waiting Game by Kate McGill
Capo 3
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 D   A   Bm   Bm(x2)
DThey put Athe two of us iBmn a F#mroom
No space for us to breathe or to move, but
We got along just fine
GAlmost Atoo fine.
DWe tell Aour stories Bmup until F#mnow
I'm liking how your story starts out, but
I wanna be the end
GI wanna Abe
GThe end is Anowhere near Bmhere
GLet my Aheart make this Dclear
GThe end is Anowhere near Bmhere
ASo we play
The DwaaaaaAaiting BmgameF#m  
The DwaaaaaAaiting Emgame
And oh you Dsay, it's Aall the Emsame
It's just a Agame.
They put the two of us in a maze
We talk about our hearts through the haze, and
We don't see the end
We don't see
The end is nowhere near hear
Let my heart make this clear
The end is nowhere near here
And so we play
The waiting game (x2)
And oh you say, it's all the same
It's just a game.
We play
The waiting game (x2)
And oh you say, it's all the same
It's just a game.
The DwaAiting Bmgame (x4)
The end is nowhere near hear
Let my heart make this clear
The end is nowhere near here
So we play
The waiting game (x2)
And oh you say, it's all the same
It's just a game.
And so we play 
The waiting game (x2)
And oh you say, it's all the same
It's just a game.
The waiting game (x4)

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The Waiting Game

by Kate McGill

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 3 (as written in this song)

Chords in this song · guitar

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The Waiting Game by Kate McGill

Capo 3

D A Bm F#m G Em

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D A Bm Bm

(x2)

D A Bm F#m

They put the two of us in a room

No space for us to breathe or to move, but

We got along just fine

G A

Almost too fine.

D A Bm F#m

We tell our stories up until now

I'm liking how your story starts out, but

I wanna be the end

G A

I wanna be

G A Bm

The end is nowhere near here

G A D

Let my heart make this clear

G A Bm

The end is nowhere near here

So we play

D A Bm F#m

The waaaaaaiting game

D A Em

The waaaaaaiting game

D A Em

And oh you say, it's all the same

It's just a game.

They put the two of us in a maze

We talk about our hearts through the haze, and

We don't see the end

We don't see

The end is nowhere near hear

Let my heart make this clear

The end is nowhere near here

And so we play

The waiting game (x2)

And oh you say, it's all the same

It's just a game.

We play

The waiting game (x2)

And oh you say, it's all the same

It's just a game.

D A Bm

The waiting game (x4)

The end is nowhere near hear

Let my heart make this clear

The end is nowhere near here

So we play

The waiting game (x2)

And oh you say, it's all the same

It's just a game.

And so we play

The waiting game (x2)

And oh you say, it's all the same

It's just a game.

The waiting game (x4)

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